Hello all, Since I have some time this month, I have continued my quest to improve PDL's website and documentation. I updated the website today, you can go to http://pdl.perl.org and see the changes.
I'm trying to take a methodical approach to fix the site. In "Round 1" (last May) I focused on the look & feel of the website. I also changed the backend to make it more flexible. Now, in "Round 2" I have focused on the organizational structure of the website. The first thing you'll notice is that the sidebar has changed a fair bit. Although it is much shorter now, it actually has roughly the same information as before. It's just better laid out, with less duplication and redundancy. To make everything work, I did have to do some work on the content: 1) I replaced the Documentation page by two pages: Tutorials and Reference. Each of these is a well-organized table of contents. They will go a long way in making documentation easy to find for new uses. 2) I rewrote the Development "Get Started" page. It has all the information from before, and I added information about Git and Mercurial. This allowed me to remove the two Git links from the sidebar. All the information from those links (and more) is in the "Get Started" page, and it is better organized. I would appreciate some help reviewing this site. Please let me know if you notice any errors or can suggest improvements. In particular, there are several modules in the Reference section that I did not know how to categorize. If you go to "Reference" and scroll down to the bottom you'll see them. I would be grateful for any help in assigning these modules to a sensible category. Work on the site has been slow. Especially the Reference section. It takes time to write things clearly. I also chose a visual layout that is very clear, but requires more time to code in HTML. But I think the result is worth the effort. Cheers, Daniel. -- No trees were killed in the generation of this message. A large number of electrons were, however, severely inconvenienced. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
